I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ranting and raving
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Why don’t you stop ranting and raving for a minute and listen?
stark raving mad (= completely crazy )
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My friends all think I’m stark raving mad .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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While southern church folk ranted about the invasion of do-gooders, they raved about black roles in Reconstruction.
on
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She was allowed to talk about herself if he was allowed to rave on about black men.
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I said and scooped him up, letting Clarisa rave on .
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Luke would rave on about change.
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Should I rave on at him for being a litter lout?
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They bubbled with enthusiasm, all talking at the same time while raving on about the beauty of the bush walk.
■ VERB
rant
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The night staff finally congregated outside my room trying endless combinations of key card whilst I ranted and raved .
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We need to rant and rave against your military spending to justify ours.
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Its as if he was ranting and raving when he said it.
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Because in the face of an injustice he will rant and rave .
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He ranted and raved because he found out years afterwards what it was the other swine had taken.
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She ranted and raved for hours.
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Coach Bill Oates does not rant and rave on the sideline.
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There will be those who would rant and rave at the move, who will claim the Warriors made a huge mistake.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(stark) raving mad/bonkers
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All of this doesn't mean he wasn't stark raving mad, and just putting on.
stark raving mad/bonkers
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All of this doesn't mean he wasn't stark raving mad, and just putting on.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Newman was raving and banging his head on the wall of his cell.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Basically everyone raved about Leeds that day - and Tuesday was a comfortable if a little uninspired.
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Coach Bill Oates does not rant and rave on the sideline.
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He was raving at Maurin, at all the people who had failed to live up to his expectations of them.
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They would rave for twenty minutes about the mouse, and totally ignore the significance of bit-mapping.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
illegal
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Even so there are rumours of an illegal rave .
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Here the helicopter spotted a crowd gathering for an illegal rave in Buckinghamshire.
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Read in studio Police chiefs say an operation to stop an illegal rave party was a great success.
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Last year illegal raves were held on Portstewart's Strand at weekends.
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The barricades go up to block an illegal rave .
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Read in studio Two councils have obtained high court injunctions in an attempt to stop an illegal rave party going ahead.
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Heroin haul ... police seize drugs at illegal rave party site.
■ NOUN
party
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Heroin haul ... police seize drugs at illegal rave party site.
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Last year Ecstacy claimed the lives of at least fourteen people, some of them at rave parties .
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Police have now warned of tough action against plans to hold any future rave parties .
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Read in studio Police chiefs say an operation to stop an illegal rave party was a great success.
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Read in studio Gloucestershire Police are warning that a spate of rave parties will put their budget in the red.
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A large marquee had been erected and the camp became giant rave party .
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After pitching their tents, the travellers held a rave party that went on for 3 days and nights.
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Read in studio Health officials are warning that so-called rave parties could lead to a drug epidemic.
scene
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The rave scene has never been bigger.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even so there are rumours of an illegal rave .
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I am a great fan of rave music yet the lyrics have never made me want to try the drug.
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Now they're investigating how the rave was organised.
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Police have now warned of tough action against plans to hold any future rave parties.
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The black markets proffer Levis, pirated rave music and electric kettles.
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There were critical raves, too, for Revelations and for a dance by John Butler.
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They say the rave will be big but like its mascot it will also be inoffensive.